Anti-Vaxxer Mom Is Jailed After Rejecting Order to Immunize Her Son

Anti-Vaxxer Mom Is Jailed After Rejecting Order to Immunize Her Son

A Michigan mother locked in a battle with her ex-husband over whether to vaccinate their child has gone to jail.

Rebecca Bredow, of Ferndale, was given a week in the slammer for refusing an order to immunize her 9-year-old son that was handed down after a year-long battle with former husband James Horne over the decision.

The anti-vaccination movement was born, in part, out of a 1998 study linking vaccines to autism in children.

While that link has been widely discredited since, recent data suggests anti-vaccination efforts are affecting children in a negative way in the form of measles and other illnesses contracted by the unvaccinated.